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Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what efficiency savings (a) her Department has sought from and (b) have been achieved by each of the non-departmental public bodies for which her Department is responsible in the last five years. [139967]

Mr. Lammy: As announced in the 2004 spending review, the Department has a target to make £262 million efficiency savings by 2007-08. This includes a sub-target of £114 million efficiency savings by NDPBs. This sub-target has now been exceeded. At 31 March 2007, NDPBs had made the following savings:

NDPB sector 2006-07 provisional gains 2007-08 target

Museums and galleries

52.9

45

Heritage bodies

13.3

14

Strategic bodies

64.5

55

Total

130.7

114


DCMS did not set targets for individual NDPBs but asked them to identify what savings they could achieve. The majority of 2006-07 data is still provisional and although we can be confident in the approximate accuracy of the overall figure, individual NDPB figures are subject to fluctuation. The 2005-06 gains, validated by the bodies, are:


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NDPB 2005-06 gains (£000)

Natural History Museum

3,909

British Museum

7,189

Victoria and Albert Museum

2,275

National Museum of Science and Industry

2,690

Tate

1,545

National Gallery

1,440

National Museums Liverpool

2,728

Imperial War Museum

679

Nation Maritime Museum

2,454

Royal Armouries

232

Museum of London

1,937

National Portrait Gallery

390

Horniman Museum

59

Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

105

Wallace Collection

130

Geffrye Museum

2

Sir John Soane Museum

15

British Library

12,059

Public Lending Right

41

Sub-total, museums and galleries

39,879

English Heritage

6,490

Royal Parks

521

CABE

230

Sub-total, heritage

7,241

Arts Council England

23,383

Sport England

7,964

UK Sport

613

VisitBritain

6,656

MLA

750

UK Film Council

2,920

Sub-total, strategic bodies

42,286

Total

89,406


Progress at achieving savings has been periodically revised as NDPBs have implemented the programme, for example, where they have been able to validate additional savings. This means that these individual figures are higher than the aggregate total reported to HM Treasury in 2005-06, which has previously appeared in published reports.

In the SR2002 period (2003-06), the British Library, the British Museum, Sport England, the tourism bodies, English Heritage and the Lottery bodies undertook modernisation programmes as part of the Department’s PSA4 target. All targets relating to PSA4 were met, as detailed in the Department’s 2005 and 2006 autumn performance reports, copies of which are available in the House Library.

Departments: Peterborough

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what grants for which her Department is responsible have been given to Peterborough city council since 1997; and what the value was of such grants. [139250]

Mr. Woodward: In the revenue return to Communities and Local Government, Peterborough reported that it has received no grants between 1997-98 and 2006-07 from my Department. These specific grants are those inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF) (i.e. revenue grants paid for councils’ core services) paid to Peterborough and exclude grants outside AEF such as capital grants, funding for local authorities' housing management responsibilities, European funding; or where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area.

These revenue returns do not therefore detail the money that is paid out by the National Lottery, DCMS non-departmental public bodies and other sources. Departmental data indicates that the following grants were paid to Peterborough.

The following table shows the number and value of grants on the Department's Lottery Grants Database (which uses information supplied by the lottery distributors) where the name of the recipient is recorded as “Peterborough city council”. Lottery distributing bodies make grant decisions independently of my Department.


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Calendar year Number of Grants Value of grants to nearest £1,000

1997

1

15,000

1998

1

54,000

1999

1

629,000

2000

3

528,000

2001

6

490,000

2002

6

653,000

2003

12

1,326,000

2004

5

1,480,000

2005

4

401,000

2006

0

0

2007 (to date)

0

0

Total

39

5,578,000


Arts Council England has provided grants totalling £204,659 to Peterborough

city council since 1997, see following table.

Project Value of Grant

1997-98

Consultancy for Peterborough Arts Strategy

7,500

1998-99

To support the salary of a literature development worker in Peterborough

4,500

1998-99

Towards ‘Once Upon a Time’ video drama project, from the Media Production fund

4,000

1998-99

Many Voices, One City project

1,500

1998-99

To support artists’ fees, venue hire and publicity costs of the Peterborough Festival of Stories

1,000

1999-2000

To support the salary of a literature development worker for Peterborough

4,500

2000-01

ESF Project Funding

5,334

2001-02

To present and promote a programme of contemporary art and digital 1 art at the Museum and Art gallery

7,426

2002-03

New Media Gallery

132,899

2002-03

To link the launch of the New Media Gallery with the regional ‘MESH’ event in April 2003. The project will commission new work

36,000

Total

204,659


English Heritage has provided grants totalling £99,651 to Peterborough city

council since 1997, see following table.

Value of g rant (£)

1997

Conservation Area Partnership Scheme

18,937

1998

Conservation Area Partnership Scheme

3,322

1999

Conservation Area Partnership Scheme

17,767

2005

Peterborough's First People Project

59,625

Total

99,651


Sport England has provided one grant to Peterborough city council since 1997 of £100,000 for Woodford Skate Park in 2004.

Screen East, the Regional Screen Agency, has provided grants totalling £11,000 to Peterborough city council since 1997, see following table.


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Date Project Value of grant (£)

4 July 2005

Children's & Young People's Film Awards

5,000

29 September 2006

Children's & Young People's Film Awards

6,000

Total

11,000


Departments: Publicity

Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which (a) advertising agencies and (b) other organisations supplied consultancy services for advertising campaigns for (i) her Department and (ii) its agencies in each of the last five years; and what the cost of these services was. [139430]

Mr. Woodward: The information is as follows:

(a) (b) (i) The Department had a zero spend on advertising between 2000 and 2002. The expenditure and agencies used for advertising and consultancy for advertising campaigns from 2003 has been as follows:

Agency/Organisation £

2003-04

Central Office of Information (COI)

20,987

2004-05

COI

37,085

2005-06

COI

139,578

2006-07

COI

3,580.89


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